More are weakened than strengthened by their troubles.

Pain narrows consciousness; pleasure blurs it.

When Medusa looks in the mirror, she sees the Lady of Sorrows.

My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.

Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth

The sewing machine joins what the scissors have cut asunder, plus whatever else comes in its path.

Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.

The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.

'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'

Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.

Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.

If you keep picking at that scab on your heart, it won't heal.

So I fight. I fight the only way I know, with thinking of Ky, even thought the pain of missing him is so strong I can hardly stand it... I think of him, I think of him, I think of him.

I like to do interior design, I love to quilt, I love to see different colors together, and I love to match things up.

The relation of the individual person to the species he belongs to is the most intimate of all relations.

If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all.

It is my intention to make no provision herein for my son Christopher or my daughter Christina for reasons which are well known to them.

It is not always the highest talent that thrives best. Mediocrity, with tact, will outweigh talent oftentimes.

I don't know who said 'pictures don't lie.' It couldn't have been a photographer.

A Museum of fetishes would give special attention to the history of underwear.

A unit of documentation. There are always three or more on a given item. One is on the shelf; someone has the others. The information you need is in the others.